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6/08/2014

Russell’s possession of an extensive collection of child pornography,
which he made accessible via the Internet to others who wished to trade
child pornography with him, was discovered through an online undercover
investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

George Stephen Russell

The FBI
executed a federal search warrant at Russell’s residence in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
and seized his computers. Forensic examination of the seized computers
revealed that he had possessed 3.841images and 33videos of suspected
child pornography.

The IP Address 193.169.86.16 (IP LOCATION: Ukraine) is listed in the CBL (Composite Blocking List). It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy and/or some other form of botnet. It was last detected at 2014-06-06 07:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 1 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes ago.

It has been relisted following a previous removal at 2014-06-01 06:17 GMT (6 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes ago).

A computer consultant from Budd Lake has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for installing hidden cameras in his Morris County home and then using the cameras to secretly record young girls who were nude or undressing. While admitting to his crime in December 2011, Ronald Oshrin, 50, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez to production of child pornography. Judge Rodriguez imposed the sentence in federal court in Camden.

At the time the initial charges were brought in April 2012 against Oshrin – who is married with children – his lawyer said his client had 23 years of experience as a computer consultant with "the veteran's administration." Oshrin has admitted, according to authorities, that between 2007 and April 2012, he installed hidden cameras in a bedroom and a bathroom of his home in order to record nine young girls in various states of undress.

He's also admitted to editing the videos to produce still photographs, authorities say, as well as to distributing videos and the still photographs of the girls over the internet.

In addition, authorities said, Oshrin admitted to having sexual contact with certain minors.

According to an FBI-signed complaint made public in April 2012, agents spoke with Oshrin and he allegedly told them that he "regularly downloads child pornography from various websites on the internet.”

The complaint can be found here (.pdf):http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/pdffiles/2012/Oshrin,%20Ronald%20Complaint.pdf

In addition, the complaint alleged that “he also regularly distributed child pornography through various methods including direct e-mail and posting on known child pornography sites and file sharing sites.”

The complaint also alleged that "when pre-pubescent girls were in the bathroom or bedroom, (Oshrin) would monitor the cameras and make video recordings of the girls ... disrobing, using the shower or using the toilet.

"Because he installed multiple cameras ... it allowed video production from various angles and allowed him to focus on specific areas of interest," the complaint said.

5/25/2014

CouncilmanBill Scearce said that he ultimately did know there was illegal gambling going on in an office he was renting to another man in the early 1990s in Joplin, Missouri.

BILL SCEARCE

Scearce, who had previously denied (to the Joplin Globe) having any knowledge that a illegal bookmaking operation was being carried out, said he did not know that was to be the use of the office at the time he agreed to rent it to Kenneth Lovett. But, he also said, that he did not do anything about it after he found out.

Scearce called the Globe and said he wanted to clarify earlier statements he made regarding his knowledge of bookmaking operations that had gone on in an office behind one of his former businesses, Olsten Staffing Services.

He is facing an investigation sought by the City Council into a previous FBI probe of gambling in Joplin. The council wants to know whether the FBI had turned up anything about Scearce that might have constituted a violation of council rules. In the same investigation, recent questions about property transactions involving Councilman Mike Woolston, a real estate agent, are to be scrutinized.

Councilman Mike Woolston

Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean said Friday the council probe will continue.

“We’re going to let the investigation play out,” she said. “Maybe earlier it could have been waylaid or suspended but at this point it would behoove us to follow through to make sure everything is on the up and up.”

An FBI probe that started in Joplin in 2008 resulted in the firing of at least one Joplin Police Department officer and the indictments last year of three Joplin men on bookmaking charges.

Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean (left)

Lovett, 73, and William Lisle, 58, were named in a Feb. 29, 2012, indictment with conducting illegal sports betting on the Internet from 2003 until 2011.

Lovett was fined $2,000 and ordered confined to his home for six months. He also was placed on probation for two years. Lisle received a similar sentence as did Clyde A. Jeffries, 77, who now lives in Las Vegas. See: http://www.fbi.gov/kansascity/press-releases/2012/former-joplin-man-indicted-for-internet-gambling

In court documents filed with the men’s cases, Scearce was listed as having been the person from whom Lovett rented an office in the early 1990s. Lovett was engaged in bookmaking during those years as well, according to court documents.

Scearce was asked by the Globe last year about the nature of his association with Lovett. He said Lovett had rented office space from him and that he was unaware of for what he used the office. He also said he resented the Globe asking him about it. He told the Globe again, in September of this year, that he had no knowledge of what transpired in the office he had rented to Lovett.

On Friday, Scearce said he did not know Lovett would use the office for gambling when he first rented it to him.

“I did later find out he was gambling,” Scearce said. “I did become aware that Kenney was a bookie. There were a lot of people going in and out of there.”

Scearce said he personally never gambled with Lovett. He said when he found out that was what was going on in the rental office, he sought advice from legal advisers. He said he was advised to do nothing and to stay out of Lovett’s office. He said he called a meeting of his staff members and told them “none of us was to have any association with them.”

Scearce said that he was questioned by the FBI at one time in regard to the operation.

“The FBI came and visited with me,” he said. “They asked if I gambled, and I said no, I didn’t. They didn’t charge me with anything.”

Scearce said the FBI also did not charge Lovett with any crime related to the time frame of the office rental, which was from 1991 to 1995. Lovett’s indictment was related to Internet gambling that had taken place since 2008.

Scearce, asked in a second conversation on Friday if he should keep his council seat in view of the changing statements, said, “I just wanted to make sure you understand I didn’t feel I had to do anything about it” when he learned of the gambling. “Why would it have any bearing on my ability to serve on the council? This happened in 1991. I was not on the council when this took place. I was a private citizen.”

The Globe, in September 2012, filed a formal request for the FBI reports regarding the gambling and public corruption probe it had conducted. Those reports have not so far been forthcoming. The council asked that its investigator obtain the reports.

5/20/2014

The IP Address 203.153.108.227 is listed in the CBL (Composite Blocking List).
It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy or some
other form of botnet. It was last detected at 2014-05-20 07:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 10 hours ago.

Screenshot of 203.153.108.227

We have detected that this IP is NATting for, or is infected itself, with a Linux (or possibly some other Unix-like system such as FreeBSD) Trojan spam mailer script.This is no joke. This infection is extremely dangerous as it can download anything it wishes, and needs to be removed ASAP.

We do not know how the malware got installed onto the machine, but we know a lot of what it does. The main thing we've seen it doing is sending staggering large volumes of email spam. But it can do a lot more than that, and that is the real danger.

NEW

Of late some of these infections are facilitiated by a SSH Rootkit called "ebury". See this link for more detail.

In most cases, this IP address would be that of a shared hosting environment. If you are a customer of this environment, you will almost certainly not be able to do anything about it, only the administrators of the hosting environment itself can. Please contact your administrators, and refer them to this page. If the administrators are reluctant to do anything please try to convince them, because there is nothing you can do to fix this problem.

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5/16/2014

Defendant Had 2006 State Convictions for Possession of Child Pornography

A Skagit County felon was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 years in prison for possession of child pornography and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Leif O’Neil Christensen, 32, of Anacortes, Washington, had been convicted in 2006 in Snohomish County of possession of child pornography. Due to that conviction, Christensen faced a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence and was prohibited from possessing a firearm. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart imposed 20 years of supervised release following the prison term.

Jenny A. Durkan

Christensen came to the attention of law enforcement in February 2010 when an FBI agent working online in an undercover capacity identified an Internet protocol (IP) address that was using peer-to-peer file sharing software to distribute child pornography. The IP address was linked to Christensen. As officers were preparing search warrants, Christensen was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender.

In December 2010, a second investigation led to a different IP address associated with Christensen in Anacortes, Washington. In March 2011, law enforcement searched that home and found both child pornography and a Ruger firearm in Christensen’s living space. Christensen was arrested. He was indicted in October 2011 and pleaded guilty in January 2012.

In asking for a 15-year sentence, prosecutors wrote to the court that Christensen’s criminal history “reveals a combustible mix of sexual deviancy, violence, poor impulse control, and drug abuse and addiction. He has admitted to molesting three boys when he was in his late teens and early 20s.

The abuse he suffered as a child undoubtedly affected him and most likely contributed to his current criminal history and the instant offense. Understanding his background may help explain his situation somewhat, but it does not mitigate the danger that he poses now, to the community at large, and to young children that he might meet. The overriding concern is that the defendant be prevented from molesting another boy.”

Richard Evans, 25, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to nine years in prison on a federal charge of distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr..

US Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr.

Evans pled guilty to the charge in March 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was sentenced by the Honorable Gladys Kessler.

Following completion of his prison term, Evans will be placed on a 10 year supervised release, with numerous conditions. Among other things, Evans must restrict his use of the Internet, undergo sex offender treatment, register as a sex offender for 25 years, and refrain from contact with children.

Gladys Kessler

According to a factual proffer of evidence presented during the court proceedings, on November 15, 2011, Evans contacted an undercover agent with the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force on a social network site.

Over those next two weeks, EVANS engaged in multiple online conversations with the undercover officer, during which he expressed an interest in meeting an underaged girl and engaging in sexual contact with her.

Evans also sent the undercover officer multiple images of child pornography and acknowledged that he actively traded child pornography with other individuals online. In the course of the online communications, Evans further expressed interest in watching the undercover performing sexual acts with the under-aged girl via web camera over the Internet and in having the undercover send him a video of the underaged girl engaged in sexual acts.

Law enforcement obtained an arrest warrant for Evans and a search warrant for his residence in Washington, D.C. On November 30, 2011, Evans was arrested. A forensic analysis of computer equipment inside Evans’ residence confirmed that he possessed approximately 560 images and 102 videos of child pornography, which were organized into various subfolders according to the category of sexual genre, fetish, and/or sexual acts.

A U.S. child porn distributor collared by the efforts of Winnipeg police and a local civilian tipster has been handed a 10-year prison term.

Adam Pedophile

Adam Goodsell, 29, was sentenced to the lengthy term in a New Mexico federal court, according to the Associated Press. Goodsell was charged in the U.S. after a Winnipeg woman complained about being sent sick images depicting child abuse or exploitation after striking up an online relationship with Goodsell. She reported the incident to Cybertip.ca in August 2010.

That tip was passed off to the Winnipeg Police Service's Internet Child Exploitation unit and she assisted detectives in the investigation. A Winnipeg undercover Agent managed to access Goodsell's computer through a file-sharing program and found more than 80.000 child-porn files available for distribution to others.

Investigators with the Albuquerque Police Department obtained a warrant to search the man's house. They seized and searched computer equipment, finding a number of illegal images.

"Goodsell admitted that while the search warrant was being executed he participated in a recorded interview during which he admitted having more than 1,000 child pornography files 'from babies on up' on his computers," the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement announcing his plea to a distribution charge last October.